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absolute dream life guys!!!:thumbup1:
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Finally we are getting some better weather for our trip to ride the Black Forrest.
We took a diagonal route on the small roads thru Pfullendorf and Beuron to finally end up in Baierbronn where we had booked a hotel. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5772/...1ba2ce77_c.jpgalpine road 37 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5774/...89ff0252_b.jpgScreen Shot 2015-09-30 at 4.04.59 PM by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5703/...b92a190a_z.jpgScreen Shot 2015-09-30 at 4.09.10 PM by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
On the way in the distance we saw a huge castle on a hilltop in the distance so we had to check out the 11 th century Hohenzollern Castle.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5727/...42a7123d_c.jpgalpine road 38 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5654/...cba26385_c.jpgalpine road 39 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5754/...a888e7c3_c.jpgalpine road 42 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/761/2...82864e62_c.jpgalpine road 45 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5694/...238587ee_c.jpgalpine road 43 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
We have had a glorious fall day in the Black Forrest!
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For our second day here we tried to stick to these tiny roads until we got to Sexau near Frieberg and then the seconday roads after that. Our destination is to get to Riezlern Austria to meet up with our friends Jay and Leanne from Vancouver.
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We were headed to Lake Constance, but routed thru Neuhausen am Rheinfall in the corner of Switzerland to see the “largest falls in Europe”. Too many tourists here I guess.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/673/2...beb0e39a_c.jpgDSC04831 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5639/...b80b181e_c.jpgDSC04833 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/663/2...de7c6391_c.jpgIMG_4315 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
We left here at 4 pm with almost 200 km to go to get to meet our friends in Rizlern Austria past the east side of the lake. It is in a valley in Austria only accessible from Germany. We made it back into Germany and took the highway briefly to then go on the lakeside road. This is a very busy small road along the lake Constance.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5627/...3212bf85_c.jpgDSC04835 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/697/2...7e17e125_c.jpgDSC04836 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5697/...fcc78165_c.jpgDSC04838 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
This put us eber further behind for our expected 7 pm arrival. The next issue is we came across another road closure into Oberstorf, which involved a back track and then 40 km of backcountry lane driving on a detour with a 30 km limit.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/634/2...c34686ba_c.jpgDSC04843 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5647/...90fa786a_c.jpgDSC04846 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr Finally we arrived in Rizlern Austria at almost 9 pm. We were meeting our Vancouver friends Jay and Leanne who were on a 3-week holiday. Jay had met our host Michael in Tok Alaska. Michael has been around the world on his Africa Twin, but this time in Tok he was on his bicycle. He was kind enough to invite us to join them all. We arrived to a beautiful dinner cooked by Sabine and multiple bottles of wine. |
Riezlern is a lovely alpine village in Austria with tons of hikers in summer and skiers in winter. There are chairlifts and gondolas all over.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5669/...e42591e4_c.jpgriezlern 2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5808/...a3bfab5d_c.jpgriezlern 3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/734/2...e105d9a7_c.jpgriezlern 4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/741/2...5e752cd5_c.jpgriezlern 38 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/680/2...a2b2068d_c.jpgriezlern 39 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5727/...fb7ecf8a_c.jpgScreen Shot 2015-10-10 at 10.12.53 PM by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
It was a bit chilly at 10 degrees, but we decided ona day ride near by in Germany.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/717/2...98d18011_c.jpgriezlern 5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/630/2...6283ff33_c.jpgriezlern 6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/771/2...d2e95f09_c.jpgriezlern 7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5617/...0b0183bb_c.jpgriezlern 8 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/681/2...50400670_c.jpgriezlern 9 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
We stopped in 24 km in Sonthofen at the Motorcycle Apparel shop to get the shields on the Shuberth helmets fixed. They were nice enough to replace the ratchets for free.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5749/...936f8c1f_c.jpgriezlern 12 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/774/2...83802a1a_c.jpgriezlern 11 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
About 50 km out we were headed up a steep, narrow, and windy road on which passing is “forbidden”. Just before this was a round about and Dan and I had smelled something burning. Well about 30 seconds later Leanne’s BMW stopped suddenly on the hill. She though she had stalled and tried to get going. Then we could see the smoke and flames coming from her rear brake. The caliper was seized. Dan Jumped off and had to drag the bike to the side of the road since the wheel would not move at all. We pulled it onto the sidewalk and left it to cool off and came back for it later. Luckily there is a mechanic about 4 km from here and he is the guy who used to go to Dakar with BMW.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/694/2...b6a7a475_c.jpgriezlern 13 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5663/...4cc21ecf_c.jpgriezlern 15 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
We continued the ride with Leanne as pillion.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/724/2...1e338788_c.jpgriezlern 22 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5780/...6744996d_c.jpgriezlern 23 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5822/...1947f31a_c.jpgriezlern 24 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5647/...0e21f284_c.jpgriezlern 25 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr |
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